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I'll be the first to admit that Servers don't need to have the nice look and feel that we get with Desktop Operating Systems. But since the core of the OS is common to both it is possible. In Windows Server 2003 we had the XP Themes Service and...
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I've said a number of times that I think technical people are rarely secure in their own abilities; that they have a demon on their shoulder who whispers "You're not really, that good" ... "They'll find you out one day"...
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Hard on the heels of the news of management tools for Hyper-V , I find that the folks in Redmond chose a UK public holiday to release all the Admin tools for Windows Vista to manage Servers. The package is described in KB941314 - which doesn't seem to...
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I nearly leaked this ahead of time; as part of the Release Candidate for Hyper-V we have released a version of of the management console to run on Windows Vista SP1. (No, to the best of my Knowledge we don't have plans of a version which runs on XP or...
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For the last year I have been saying that the mentality of waiting for a Service pack is a way of thinking which belongs to the 1990s (wait 6 months might make sense, but a service pack is not the milestone it was). Still, SP1 has released and whilst...
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My carbon footprint has got worse: after the travel of the Road-show, I popped up to Leeds last night to talk to BCS. A round trip of 400 miles. While I was there Dave threw me one of those questions... the kind where you know the answer. You know that...
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One of the things we've done with Windows over the years is to try to make life a bit harder for people who pirate it. This isn't just about protecting Microsoft's revenue (or even keeping that revenue out of the hands of criminals) but investigations...
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Having mentioned Powershell in several recent posts, I said in passing I'd discovered that it had a Get-EventLog cmdlet I also talked about the problems I was having with sleep - or more to the point the machine waking up and running till it crashed,...
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I wrote that I blamed the rather odd behaviour my laptop was showing on some kind of hardware fault - possibly the lid switch. However a quick swap of hard-disks with Steve proved that whatever was wrong was on my hard-disk and not on his. So it was software...
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Matt McSpirit IM'd me a couple of days ago to ask if I'd built a custom Windows Vista installation DVD. And I had to confess that I'd only looked at it briefly - I know Microsoft IT have an image we can burn to a DVD, and I've done about every other install...
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Back in March I wrote that 64 bit Vista marked the end of the line for my Lexar 32bit Cardbus adapter. It got lost in the post on the way from Hong Kong. I gave it enough time to be sure it really was lost and the e-bay seller sent me another which arrived...
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Lets get prejudice out up front. I pendulum between liking Adobe products (e.g. Lightroom), admiring the technology but hating the way it's used ( Hugh has it right when it comes to flash use ), and getting thoroughly ticked off with PDF. e.g. Microsoft...
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I'm not quite sure when it appeared, but this evening I noticed a link on the restore dialog box in Vista " Learn how to restore from backups created on Older versions of Windows ", there are 32 and 64Bit versions. I considered using a Virtual Machine...
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A while back I posted the diagram below to try to explain how Vista activation worked. Click it for a larger version. There are two entries which are marked "due out in 2007", both of which show up on the Vista Downloads page . For KMS keys we now have...
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When I'm in the office I have a network cable on my hot desk and access to wireless networking. There's enough bandwidth available on wireless for most purposes, but for large downloads and software installations wired is greatly preferable. Yesterday...
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Spring is here, Spring is here ... I think the loveliest time of the year is the spring, yes I do, don't you ? course you do. Actually when I look at the weather it's doesn't look like spring. But unlike Tom Lehrer , the one thing that makes spring complete...
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A few days ago someone who had installed 64 bit Vista asked us " why Microsoft developed an operating system that MOST of the software manufacturers have told me will take at least 2 years for them to support" Now if you develop a new OS it takes vendors...
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In place preview of files is a great feature of Vista's shell and Outlook 2007. The lack of support for PDF files really got an my nerves. It seems it got Tim Heuer too. Except Tim did something about it. He worked with the folks at Foxit software - who...
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Groove is infectious. Everyone who has started using it in the office, loves it and sets up workspaces for other people. Sue, our roadshow producer is using the evaluation version and is already growing nervous of the day it runs out - she was really...
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Santa came late this year, and brought me a new Dell Latitude 820. Nice. Two 64-bit cores, a 1900x1200 screen and for the first time I have integrated Bluetooth - which works nicely with my new mouse. I put Microsoft-IT's standard build of 64 bit vista...
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One of the things I learnt in the run up to last week’s BETT show was about licensing. I often joke that I have a degree in computer science, 40 Microsoft product certifications and 20 years industry experience but that doesn’t fit me out to understand...
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As Eileen has already said our team spent last week at the BETT show . My first "proper" IT job after leaving university was working for RM who are the biggest supplier of IT to education and I did a couple of BETT shows when I worked for them; it's the...
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How many times when you've been writing a technical document have you had to copy the results of some command from a command prompt window ? When I was looking for some information about WINSAT for my earlier post, I some lists of new vista commands....
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There are a bunch smart ideas in Vista, and Readyboost seems to be a favorite with a lot of people: extend memory by using USB "key" / "Stick" "Thumb drive" (what are we meant to call these things). Of course since it can be pulled out at any time it...
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I've said before, but not on this blog, that the worst bits of software I have on my XP-based home PC all came with devices.It's hardly surprising, when we buy software alone we only buy something satisfactory. We make buying decisions on the devices...
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